you don't seem to understand the previous comment. Samsung fanboys always nag on Apple for copying. Just after Apple's Iphone 5s in gold had to increase production by 33% over other colors (to compensate for demand on the gold color), well, now Samsung is trying to copy the apparent gold rush. Funny how Samsung fanboys are all of a sudden *very quiet* about it...or in denial such as yourself, that Samsung is copying. When will all fanboys of all companies realize that EVERYONE copies everyone else, and get over it.

Hi, I'm "verbalize". I am an Apple fanboy. All I do is take every opportunity, regardless of whether it is relevant, to claim that the largest Apple competitor only copies Apple, because I am a corporate parrot who thinks with his feelings rather than with reason.
I lick my iPhone every morning and evening, and call it perfect, including its 4 inch screen... until later this year, when I will immediately call 4.7" the new "perfect" (iPhone 6) :-)

Oh Please... Samsung's been offering this same GOLD trim option on their Galaxy Tab 3 and Galaxy Note 8.0 tablets since their introduction some 6 months ago, so this is no surprise and only natural that it would also be offered on other Samsung Galaxy devices.

The thing is... Samsung should've 'released' this very version around the time S4 first hit the shelves, or rather, get ready with it. Doesn't matter which type of gold device was released by whom in the past...start searching for it and you'll probably figure out Samsung ain't the first to come up with a gold colored device. But right now, Samsung is feeling the heat, and not to flame you up but they deserve it...and i don't blame people supporting Apple here. If they wanted a device to be Gold now, i think Note 3 should take the crown in my opinion. It's just a bad timing for Samsung.

On second thought, that might not be a solution at all. If Samsung released S4 in gold when it was first launched and Apple came up with it later...Samsung fanboys will be all over Apple again. And the battle continued to infinity. Hence, the entire comments will be the other way round.
Oh, boy! What a movie this would've been.

Well Samsung did announce the Samsung "Golden" (the damn thing has gold in it's name!) on 8-4-13, over a month before Apple officially announced the gold 5S. Not a word from Samsung peeps because there have been other ugly gold phones before, even from Samsung, the S3600 in fact.
The problem is the iFans, in typical iFan fashion, think Apple invented the gold colored phone and any gold phone is copying Apple due to being uneducated in any device that does not have an "i" in front of it.

Nobody is saying it isn't a direct result of Apple. Gold phones existed before iPhone became a phone but the recent announcement of Apple made it popular. So yea, Sammy is reacting to Apple's moves but that's how the market goes so no problem.

I think it's a new strategy of Samsung to counter ALL moves from Apple. Not just here, remember they were quick to announce they will have 64-bit chips right after the unveiling of iP5s?

Completely agree. The reason I made that statement is because every Android fan claims Apple is nothing but a copy off of Android and hasn't ever come up with anything on their own. Where are all those loud-mouth Android users now?!

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Quiet. Samsung owns such a majority of the Android shares its absurd. Android users were all exstatic about an article PA put out last month about how Samsung dominates not just the Android market, but the entire smartphone market as well. But now that you realize Samsung copies Apple as much as Apple copies Samsung, not everyone is a Samsung user now, huh? You Android users really don't think your s*** don't stink.

I'm an android user and will never ever buy an Apple product since I'm an advocate of open-source, nothing else (I owned an iPod nano though, cos it was way too cool back then). I have heavily invested time, money, knowledge, and (emotions?) in the android ecosystem so this is where I'm sticking.

I have respect for both parties and really appreciate what these guys bring to the table. If not for their competition we wouldn't be sooo interested in mobile technology.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is it's already a proven point that both parties copied something from the other. So stop flaming. Who copied first, who copied who. What matters is the here and the now. And right now we're getting mobile beasts and that's what we should appreciate. You never see Xbox gamers and PS gamers flaming each other instead they wow on the available games on the other platform and enjoy what's on theirs. Sh*t that was long.

1st - there's definitely a rivalry between Xbox and PS, but that's an argument for another day.

Next - If you see my posts from the past you'd know I'm relatively neutral when it comes to phone preference. I've had Android for years, currently own the iPhone 4S, but could happily go either direction with my next purchase. I'm not die-hard either way. What frustrates me is how arrogant and close-minded Android users are. According to them, Android is king, Apple is rubbish and every iPhone user is a blind idiot sheep. Apple makes a high quality, extremely desirable product. Even king Samsung knows that - hence the 64bit future and gold S4. This article proves how much more credit Apple deserves than it gets from 90% of the readers on this site. Where's PAPINYC? TROLL? Crickets......

Im sorry darkkjedii but msa, you have no clue do you...when have samsung ever copied apple entertain me please...wait i will cover the first bases for you:
First galaxy S-Nope no copying there, first of all there is hardly any other design for a smartphone other than a rectangle with rounded edges and second the first iteration of touchwiz looked nothing like iOS except for the app drawer and lets be honest there is no other design for a app drawer
Gold S4-I fail to see how the hell this is copying, gold phones have been around for decades hell you could even get nokia flip phones in gold!

Gold phones have been out before but when were they relevant? I'll answer that for you - Never. Apple, the most admired company in the WORLD, comes out with a gold phone and sells out months of inventory in days. What's the result of this? Samsung comes out with THE EXACT SAME PRODUCT. Samsung announced the GS5 will have 64BIT processing. Do you need a refresher on who came up with that first?

Im not sure the maker of the chip can be classified as a copycat......and who the hell said apple was the most admired company in the world because im sure 99% of the people on this site would disagree! And what the hell are you talking about gold phones not being popular

Both the nokia 3210 ( one of the most popular phones in the world ever) came in gold

Another is the Nokia C3-10 came in gold which was also extremely popular

face it the popularity of the gold phone color isnt up to apple alone! Samsung are continuing a trend set in motion ages ago!

@Whoyton 99% of the readers of this site are a minority in the real world man so we DON'T matter in GLOBAL polls.

And I'm also neutral on these things.

I agree with msa though on Android users being arrogant and close-minded. But according to my experience these Android users are the ones who think they are above the rest just because they read tech blogs and can flash a custom rom. True-blue android coders recognize the fact that iOS is one hell off an optimized structure (hence the less need for speed), have a nice ergonomic design, and IS user friendly.

Here are the facts:
1. Gold phone didn't start with the iP5s, but it was popularized when Apple outed the iP5. The song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" used in the movie "The Lion King" was popularized by the film and we all love it, but it was written almost 100 years ago by an African tribesman. Do we flame Disney? Give credit where it's due. Samsung is riding the wave of the sudden increase in popularity of gold phones

2.It's already a fact that there were copying done from both sides. Get over it. What matters is what each side brings to the table NOW.

3.When all is said and done, everything boils down to preference. You can tell me orange juice is good for my body but I'd still take beer over it anyday. Same goes for people who like iOS over Andoid and vice versa.

I believe this is the gold trim Samsung is "coming out with" as well as the gold trim it came out with 3 years ago. Now, just because darkjeddi gets on his knees for you doesn't mean either of you can produce anything showing Samsung wasn't 1st. Enjoy the Msa show!

Lol, I actually still have the first Galaxy S in my desktop drawer. That phone was horrible. GPS didn't work, unbelievable short battery life, the touchwiz on it actually did tried to copy the ios every way. Just the icons alone, they put stupid rounded corner box around all the icons so it looks like ios,instead of veritcal scrolling app drawers, they made the app draw scroll horizontally so it looks like ios.

Omg, horizontal app drawer is hardly a copy in any way!!!! My galaxy apollo had in vertical on its Orange Mobile skin! So your now saying Orange copied apple!!!! And rounded icons!! Really last time i checked rounded icons were not exclusive to apple!!!

Yeah, just keep yourself in denial. Just because it's not exclusive, it does not mean samsung did not copy. When there are one or two things that just looks similiar, it may be coincident. When there are over 100 items similar, that is no coincidence. They'd even make the box and charge looks similiar to Apple's. FYI, I have 4 samsung smartphones before I switched to Apple. They are still all in my drawer.

First of all:
Samsung did "gold" phones before Apple . So shut up.
Second:
The color of iPhone, was not "gold", but champagne.
Third:
Menial iMedia changed the name "champagne" to "gold" and made so insane, organized, free advertizing for the "gold" color, to make it populare, - so WHY SHOULDN'T Samsung take use of it ??????(it was same with 64bit, made from Samsung for Apple, but actually Samsung needed it most for its Tizen, ant leave the ad job to Apple- nothing is better than Apples marketing machine, and Samsung use it cleverly. Imagine if Samsung announced 64bit first - lol iMedia would kill them)

And last THE MOST IMPORTANT :
Except of few hairdressers , few ladys , and few metro men , no one else will buy "gold" colored phones.
So, take it easy iboys and iMedia . ROTFL.

Not funny...samsung made gold phone when apple launched its first iPhone...2007...the year ocean's thirteen was released...remember a scene when abigail gift custom made gold phone to bank??? You don't watch movies? do you?

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